Bernd Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > > The following one is wrong, tho - should be rather
> > > >                 str[i] = dn[i]; i++;
> > > 
> > > Nope.  (Well, at least you need to add extra braces.)  The comma is a
> > > sequence point.

> > Umm, I thought, dn[i], i++ evaluates to i and dn[i++] evaluates
> > to dn[i], so it should be either i++, dn[i-1] or the one I showed
> > above?

> According to operator precedence rules,
>       str[i] = dn[i], i++;
> is equivalent to
>       (str[i] = dn[i]), i++;

> Comma has the lowest precedence of all C operators.

If knowledgeable C users have doubts on the code's meaning, *rewrite
it*. This is just misunderstandings (and bugs) waiting for the unwary.
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